THE CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY Economic Importance There is an extensive literature on the Cuban sugar industry in the island and abroad. The reason is obvious: sugarcane has been, and continues to be, the dominant crop in Cuba’s economy, and sugar the main source of foreign exchange. Data published by the Cuban government portray the sugar […]

Introduction In Cuba, the non-sugar agricultural sector produces significant amounts of food staples essential to the people’s diet and contributes handsomely to the international trade accounts of the nation. This is the only sector in the country which operates with a significant number of private entrepreneurs (farmers and small parcel owners o parceleros). In 1989, over […]

I. Introduction The transition of Cuba from Marxism to democracy raises a number of important constitutional and legal issues. In this short paper all I can hope to do is make the reader aware of some of these questions and suggest solutions for some of them. However, as almost always in law, especially when dealing […]

On September 5, 1995, the Popular Power Assembly of Cuba enacted Law No. 77 which regulates foreign investments in Cuba. This law replaced previous Law No. 50 which enacted in 1982 had failed to attract a significant amount of foreign investments. According to the United Nations, the annual flows of direct foreign investment into Cuba […]